One-Off Moving Image Festival 2018

Introduction

This first edition of One-Off Moving Image Festival took place 19 - 25 February 2018!
We're showing 1 second movies together with 60 seconds movies in public, urban space in collaboration with 60Seconds Festival in Copenhagen (DK). All our movies were screened in the metro station Angel Guimerá in Valencia (ES) together with a selection of 60 seconds movies. A selection of our movies was shown in parallel in Copenhagen. We're also screening our movies here on the net during the festival.

The theme for the 2018 festival is "HOME IS...". Keywords: Habitat, safety, homesick, refuge, the right to a home, migration, homeless, retreat, the making of a home, precarity, technology-induced precarity, material or psychological welfare or lack of it.

The festival awarded two selected movies a symbolic prize: a jury award of 1500 NOK, and an audience award of 800 NOK.

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This is literally the home of my avatar on an OpenSim localhost on my marchine;
the home has been transformed by modifying the Sim behaviour; the activated objects
etc. are beneath and within the landscape itself; they're inaccessible; the avatar
(Alan Dojoji) looks on from a distance as the landscape constantly appears to crash
itself.

Raahhaa

Our only home is the planet Earth—the blue marble. With an unexpected approach to surveillance cameras, global networks, and live ocean temperature data, this video was recorded in May 8th, 2017. It is part of the net art project "Through the Aleph: A Glimpse of the World in Real Time," which offers an unprecedented visual experience where many places on Earth and in space can be seen simultaneously in an instant.

Please note: This short video captured the views of the midnight sun in Antarctica. Please see the third webcam viewpoint from the left on the last row.

Displacements

4 Generations

What If Mat Had Feelings

"Walk-in" is a new-age term used for a person whose original consciousness left the body due to an unusual, often traumatic event, and was replaced with another consciousness. The film refers to the notion of home in the context of non-physicality, liminal states, concept of soul migration and the subconscious.

Curator: Thanks for your movie, which i found .. first of all, disturbing!
Could you give some more background/info to the piece?? I want to be reassured that it's .. fiction?

Mercer: No, the piece is in no way reality, but I suppose it's a credit to the work that you even had that doubt, so I am most flattered!
So, a bit of context: I'm a high school/secondary school/grammar school student studying "Moving Image Arts" in AS Level at school. This piece came about as a challenge to a peer of mine who has some ambitious gunshot effects, and a bed murder, that they wanted to create in their final film this year, and was told by our teacher that it was unrealistic to try it: he really had no confidence in the guy. As a person who often finds themself explaining techniques to my classmates, I decided to have a crack at the effect myself, to great success; so later on this year I'll give the student a bit of help perfecting the effect for his own movie.
I had also been working this year on a piece of similar aesthetic which explored the danger of Internet in the home, and how the dangers of constant connectivity through the web are now brushing up very closely to a domestic setting. This 1 second piece, is in a way, a continuation of that theme, in the subversion of the expectation that the home is a place of safety and refuge - Hence the imagery of a homely warm bed juxtaposed with the disturbing shot and death.

Curator: For a 1 second thriller/horror movie, you might have nailed it!

this 1 second movie shows my home, my living room, a vase with tulips on the table
a dead leaf falls off one of the tulips
the picture starts in green and ends in red, from safe to danger (the leaf is all alone, separate from its home tulip)
there is a change of light
it has a dramatic sound
the camera zooms in on the tulips until the leaf falls down, then it zooms out

This 1 second movie is a tribute to a dutch movie, which was almost 3 minutes long, produced in 1966, called Tulips, directed by Wim van der Linden (died in 2001).

About

The One-Off Moving Image Festival is organized and curated by Noemata.

The festival is collaborating with 60Seconds Festival for call, theme, movies and screenings, and both festivals run in parallel 19 - 25 February (Monday-Sunday) 2018. We share the works so the screenings are a mix of 1 minute and 1 second movies. One-Off Festival uses virtual screenings via routers and wireless technology while 60Secs do physical screenings using projectors. We both use public, urban settings as the exhibition space.

All the movies are screened in the metro station Angel Guimerá in Valencia (ES) using piratebox routers (TP-LINK MR3020). The station is a traffic hub where we're covering 5 metro lines in total. The festival is collaborating with Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) and their Linea 0 programme for social responsibility. The documentation of the festival is at http://noemata.net/one-off/docu/.

A selection of the movies is shown in parallel at 60Seconds Festival in Copenhagen (DK). We're also showing a selection of their 60 seconds movies. In addition we're screening all our movies here on the net during the festival.

One-Off is an offspring of the Leap Second Festival, an x-ennale lasting 1 second (three former editions 2012, 2015, 2016/2017). Since the leap seconds are inserted into clock-time irregularly we wanted in addition to have a yearly festival of 1 second movies, also to be able to run in parallel with 60Secs festival. 60Secs on their side has more than ten years of experience in organizing screenings of short movies in public (streets, walls, metro). All 1-second movies will be included in the next Leap Second Festival.

In 2017 Leap Second Festival and 60Secs collaborated on 6 screenings in Europe consisting of movies from both, with the practise of mixing short and ultra-short movies. More info. This in turn lead up to the establishment of the One-Off festival. We're running it without funds for the moment, in line with the theme of home, technology, precarity.

Theme for the 2018 festival is HOME IS... . Keywords: Habitat, safety, homesick, refuge, the right to a home, migration, homeless, retreat, the making of a home, precarity, technology-induced precarity, material or psychological welfare or lack of it.
Home provides shelter, security and the shield from where we can look at the world. Homes are an integral part of complex social structures, adapting and taking form after cultural and geographical environments.
Everyday millions from around the world are forced to flee their homes, some search for a new safe haven holding on to the figth of building new lives elsewhere, others accept their new situation becoming a paradox of the world's metropolis.
What does home mean on the net? A virtual environment in which we are neither here nor there, and always on the other side of the screen. What is a virtual home?
How does technology empower or impoverish a sense of safety and belonging? Or coupled with a globalization without borders, and another one with walls? Or privacy-intrusing surveillance and tracking? Compatible with a home?
The awkwardness of a 1 second movie about home emphasizes a strained relation between technology and precarity. How pervasive technology allows for a self-precarization, a return to a nomadic or possibly dislocated way of life, a hunter-gatherer of jobs, money, material or general welfare. Are we satisfied carrying our homes with us? A recent study showed that teenagers would prefer breaking an arm to breaking their phone.
The 1 second format is almost like an empty message, like the snapchat 'streak' - a meaningless, random image just serving to keep the daily communication going. And not unlike the computer-command ping, meant to check whether the network and destination is alive. It reminds of the obsolete 'HERE IS'-key on old computers or teleprinters, it identified you on a network once you pressed the key.
The home key on an english keyboard today, mostly brings you to the start of a document, the top of a page, in a sense, to the start of your own history as a human browser - home as your starting point. But where are you when you hit the end key - have you come home like you would in real life - home as also an end point? Where are we at the end of history? With our knowledge and consciousness of an ultimate end to ourselves and the world, does it make home an even more cherished notion, in spite of its impossibility? A tiny flash in the dark? But when you _are_ that flash, it makes a difference, to be what you are, a perspective from home, a 'here is'-message, no beginning, no end.